Database
Column: Database Veteran
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The database field is filled with too much nonsense and false marketing. Database Veteran helps you see through the fog, penetrate the confusion, and strike at the core and essence of the industry.
Google AI Toolbox: Production-Ready Database MCP is Here?
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Google recently launched a database MCP toolbox, perhaps the first production-ready solution.
Stop Arguing, The AI Era Database Has Been Settled
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The database for the AI era has been settled. Capital markets are making intensive moves on PostgreSQL targets, with PG having become the default database for the AI era.
Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB
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If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.
7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025)
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Is PostgreSQL the king of boring databases? Which databases show promise and punch in 2025?
Modern Hardware for Future Databases
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This article is a comprehensive review of how hardware developments affect database design, introducing key hardware advances in networking, storage, and computing.
Optimize Bio Cores First, CPU Cores Second
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Programmers are expensive, scarce biological computing cores, the anchor point of software costs — please prioritize optimizing biological cores before optimizing CPU cores.
MongoDB: Now Powered by PostgreSQL?
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MongoDB 3.2’s analytics subsystem turned out to be an embedded PostgreSQL database? A whistleblowing story from MongoDB’s partner about betrayal and disillusionment.
Can Oracle Still Save MySQL?
Percona founder Peter Zaitsev publicly expressed disappointment with MySQL and its IP owner Oracle in an official blog post, as well as dissatisfaction with performance degradation in newer versions. This is indeed a signal worth attention.
MySQL Performance Getting Worse, Where Is Sakila Going?
MySQL performance degrades with higher versions? While PostgreSQL advances triumphantly, eating the database world, MySQL’s performance and features are being left further behind. Why has MySQL stagnated under Oracle? I think it’s mainly the fault of cloud vendors freeloading - PG should take warning.
The $20 Brother PolarDB: What Should Databases Actually Cost?
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Today we discuss the fair pricing of commercial databases, open-source databases, cloud databases, and domestic Chinese databases.
Can Chinese Domestic Databases Really Compete?
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Friends often ask me, can Chinese domestic databases really compete? To be honest, it’s a question that offends people. So let’s try speaking with data - I hope the charts provided in this article can help readers understand the database ecosystem landscape and establish more accurate proportional awareness.
Redis Going Non-Open Source is a Disgrace to "Open Source" and Public Cloud
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Redis “going non-open source” is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to “open source/OSI” and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.
Database in K8S: Pros & Cons
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Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. It has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services.
Are Specialized Vector Databases Dead?
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Vector storage and retrieval is a real need, but specialized vector databases are already dead. Small needs are solved by OpenAI directly, standard needs are captured by existing mature databases with vector extensions. The ecological niche left for specialized vector databases might support one company, but trying to build an industry around AI stories is impossible.
Are Databases Really Being Strangled?
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Many “domestic databases” are just shoddy, inferior products that can’t be helped. Xinchuang domestic OS/databases are essentially IT pre-made meals in schools. Users hold their noses while migrating, developers pretend to work hard, and everyone plays along with leaders who neither understand nor care about technology. The infrastructure software industry isn’t being strangled by anyone - the real chokehold comes from the so-called “insiders.”
Which EL-Series OS Distribution Is Best?
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RHEL-series OS distribution compatibility level: RHEL = Rocky ≈ Anolis > Alma > Oracle » Euler. Recommend using RockyLinux 8.8, or Anolis 8.8 for domestic requirements.
What Kind of Self-Reliance Do Infrastructure Software Need?
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When we talk about self-reliance and control, what are we really talking about? Operational self-reliance vs. R&D self-reliance - what nations/users truly need is the former, not flashy “self-research”.
Back to Basics: Tech Reflection Chronicles
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The cost-cutting and efficiency imperative has triggered a reevaluation of all technologies, including databases. This series will critique hot technologies in the DB field and pose fundamental questions about their trade-offs in today’s context.
Database Demand Hierarchy Pyramid
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Similar to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, user demands for databases also have a progressive hierarchy: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, esteem needs, cognitive needs, aesthetic needs, self-actualization needs, and transcendence needs.
NewSQL: Distributive Nonsens
As hardware technology advances, the capacity and performance of standalone databases have reached unprecedented heights. which makes distributed (TP) databases appear utterly powerless, much like the “data middle platform,” donning the emperor’s new clothes in a state of self-deception.
Are Microservices a Stupid Idea?
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Even Amazon, the SOA exemplar, thinks microservices and serverless suck. Are microservice architectures still a good idea? Amazon’s Prime Video team published a very compelling case study explaining why they abandoned microservices and serverless architecture.
It's Time to Say Goodbye to GPL
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This article argues that in 2020, the enemy of computing freedom is cloud software, and advocates for the concept of local-first software.
Understanding Time - Leap Years, Leap Seconds, Time and Time Zones
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A proper understanding of time is very helpful for correctly handling time-related issues in work and life. For example, time representation and processing in computers, as well as time handling in databases and programming languages.
Understanding Character Encoding Principles
Without understanding the basic principles of character encoding, even simple string operations like comparison, sorting, and random access can easily lead you into pitfalls. This article attempts to clarify these issues through a comprehensive explanation.
Concurrency Anomalies Explained
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Concurrent programs are hard to write correctly and even harder to write well. Many programmers simply throw these problems at the database… But even the most sophisticated databases won’t help if you don’t understand concurrency anomalies and isolation levels.
Blockchain and Distributed Databases
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The technical essence, functionality, and evolution of blockchain is distributed databases. Specifically, it’s a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (resistant to malicious node attacks) distributed (leaderless replication) database.
Consistency: An Overloaded Term
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The term “consistency” is heavily overloaded, representing different concepts in different contexts. For example, the C in ACID and the C in CAP actually refer to different concepts.